difference between what the thedral authorities have been using for so many years and what Messrs. Palmer & Turner have designed for them is such that a cot parison would be ridiculous, For the school they have had a trifling one-storey building, partitioned off into sections, dismal and insufficient, though great things hace been "achieved within it, The Church House has been equally unattractive and lacking in accommodation, whilst the Deanery, though probably a very nice house {in its day, long since passed into such a state that, had it been private property, a landlord would have hesitated about offering it for rent.
All these buildings now' are to be demolished. Over in that part of the Cathedral compound facing the Municipal buildings, and taking in a part of the present Deanery grounds, there will be erected a new Deanery, of a style conforming to the Cathedral, with ample accommodation, and having a garden and tennis courts attached to it, On the site of the Cathedral School and the Church House there will be built a single three-storey block in which there will be separate accommodation for every branch of the Cathedral's work—not only a much larger school, but administra. tion and club-rooms for the Cathedral Club, the Girl Friendly Society, Boy Scouts, ete., and flats for the Head Master, the Sub-Dean, and others in permanent residence.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.